21 adverbs to describe how to overwhelm

Had not Godfrey come to the assistance of a division of the Christian army, when it was surrounded by two hundred thousand Turks at the battle of Dorylaeum, the Christians would have been utterly overwhelmed, and the Turks would have pressed to the Hellespont.

Yes, the Monarch I have been describing, and, I think, not partially, has been overwhelmed with sorrow and indignitieshis person has been degraded, that he might be despoiled of his crown, and perhaps the sacrifice of his crown may be followed by that of his life.

Thus I find myself uncertain when asked where these waters go which flow in a circular and continuous movement from east to west, never to return to their starting-place; and how it happens that the west is not consequently overwhelmed by these waters, nor the east emptied.

He maintained his station on the mizen top-mast that lay among the wreck to leeward; the surf which was rushing round the bow and stern continually overwhelming him.

Before the war in South Africa, rumour says, he was instructor to the "Staats Artillerie," which Kruger raised to stay the storm that he knew inevitably would overwhelm him.

I am apt to believe, in the retrospect, that half the calamities I was destined to endure would infallibly have overwhelmed and destroyed me.

Each time it invariably overwhelms and astounds.

GEORGE literally overwhelms the place, breaks out everywhere; began at earliest moment with question of precedence.

I cried, hoarse with rage" Too palpably our hero had been overwhelmed by his passion for fictitious prose narrative.

" "You positively overwhelm me," said Johnson.

Strangely headstrong and brave, he had overwhelmed both free thinkers and bishops with this terrible weapon, charging at his enemies like a bull, regardless of the party to which they belonged.

Instead of attacking first the Servians and then the Greeks and overwhelming them separately, it was necessary to fight their combined forces.

The caciques now consulted with Cortes in what manner to defend themselves from the resentment of Montezuma, who must soon learn the evil treatment of his officers, and would speedily overwhelm them under the force of his innumerable armies.

After the most brilliant, the most continually and invariably triumphant of reigns, he began to see Fortune slipping away from him, and the grievous consequences of his errors successively overwhelming the state.

I did not long remain in doubt, my peace of mind returned; and in the evening, while engaged in prayer (Eliza being with me), the divine influence sweetly overwhelmed my soul, and not mine only, my Eliza felt its power.

On the present occasion his first dismay was swiftly overwhelmed by a cold anger at the insulting trick.

They would have a grand pageant:St. Patrick would meet St. Michael in deadly conflict, and the result would undoubtedly overwhelm one of the combatants with defeat, elevating the other to the summit of joy and victory.

When the waves from the threshing-paddle so unexpectedly overwhelmed him, he had just time to draw a deep inspiration before he was environed by death.

To most men the new things came little by little and day by day, remarkably enough, but not so abruptly as to overwhelm.

When any passion violently overwhelms the soul, the person who feels it, always speaks sententiously, avoids repetitions, and is not capable of much recollection, at least of making a minute detail of circumstances.

He gulped alarmingly as the full knowledge overwhelmed him.

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